Fermat's Last Theorem

In today's blog, I will show Edward Waring 's method for expressing any symmetric polynomial in terms of the elementary symmetric p...

Edward Waring, despite not being very well known even today, was one of the most talented mathematicians of his time. He was cursed by the ...

The content in today's blog is taken from Jean-Pierre Tignol's Galois' Theory of Algebraic Equations . Although Albert Girard ...

Leopold Kronecker was born on December 7, 1823 in the city of Liegnitz which is today part of Poland. At the time of his birth, it was part...

In a previous entry , I posted the proof of Sturm's Theorem. This is a method for determining the number of real roots in a given inter...

In a previous blog entry , I talked about the properties of Sturm Chains . In today's blog entry, I will show how they can be used to es...